peterson



(No Model.) S. `PETERSON.

MOTOR Patented June 28, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

SIVAN PETERSON,

OF GIBSON CITY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDREW .TOI-INSON,OFSAME PLACE.

MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 478,068, dated June 28,1892. Application filed March 16, 1892. Serial No. 425,138. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, SWAN PETERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Gibson City, in the county of Ford and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Mot-or, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of motors that arespring-actuated; and the objects and advantages of the same, together with the novel features thereof, will hereinafter appear, and beparticularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l. is a side elevation of a motorconstructed in accordance with my invention, the same being applied toand adapted to operate a pump. Fig.

2 is a plan view.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both the figures ofthe drawings.

Any suitable frame-work maybe employed for supporting the mechanismhereinafter described, and I have herein illustrated one simple form,which forms no material part of my invention and for which other formsmay be substituted.

1 designates a transverse shaft, which is mounted in suitable bearings2, formed near the upper ends of a pair of vertical standards oruprights 3. Mounted on the shaft is a walking-beam 4, which extends toopposite sides of the shaft and is provided at its center with a hub 5,through which the shaft passes. are mounted on the beam sliding sleeves6, which terminate at their under sides in depending liooks 7, carryinga series of weights S, adapted to counterbalance each other. From theshaft there projects a rock-arm 9, disposed slightly at an angle to thebeam, and below the shaft 1 there is journaled in the aforesaid uprightsor standards 3 the transverse shaft 10, upon which is fulcrumed theinner end of an actuating-lever 11. A link 12 is pivoted, as at 13 13,to the outer end of the arm 9 and to the lever 11 at the inner side ofits center.

At one side of the standards or uprights 3 and below the beam et thereare located opposite pairs of uprights or standards 14 and 15, suitablyconnected by proper tie bars, as shown. A winding-shaft 16 is journaledin At, opposite sides of the shaft there! the uprights 14, and upon theaforesaid shaft a main gear 17 is mounted and adapted to rotatetherewith. Coiled-about the shaft 16 and secured thereto is anactuating-spring 1S; or, if desired, there may be secured to the shaftthe Well-knowirineclianical equivalent of the spring-namely, a Weight.The outer end of the spring is made fast, as at 19, to a post orstandard 14, and one end of the shaft 16 is squared to receive acrank-shaped ke'y,vwhere by the spring may be 'tightened' upon theshaft. i

Between the uprights 15 transverse shafts 20 and 2l are located. Theshaft 2O is provided with a disk 22 and a small gear 24, and the shaft21, which is below the shaft 20, is provided with a large gear 23 and asmall gear 25. The smallgear 25 of the lower shaft is engaged and drivenby the gear 17 of the winding-shaft, and it in turn drives the shaft 21and the gear 23. The gear 23 engages the small gear 24 of the uppershaft 20, and the vlatter carries With it the disk 22, or what mightmore properly be called crank-disk, so that, as will be seen, I'haveprovided a system of speed-increasing gears from the winding-shaft tothe said disk 22. The disk 22 is further provided with a radial slot 26,and adj ustably mounted therein is awrist or crank pin 27. By suchadjustment, a's will be observed, the pin may beadj usted nearer to orfarther from the shaft 20. A connecting link or rod 2S is pivotallyconnected at its lower end to the pin 27, and at its upper end by a pin29vis pivotally connected to the outer end of the lever 11. Thiscompletes the construction of the motor so far as the motor itself isconcerned, and in its application it is simend to the upper end of theplunger 31.

celerated, as will be obvious.

In order to operate the pump, itis simply necessary to adjust theweight-carrying sleeve 6 t0 proper eounterbalanGing-points upon the beam4, which is readily accomplished by means of set-screws 35, passingthrough the sleeves and bearing upon the beams. rlhe Winding-shaft isnow rotated so as to tighten the spring thereon and the mechanismpermitted to operate. Motion is conveyed through the various gearsheretofore described, and through such gears the motion is-greatly ac-The revolutions of the disk 22 cause a vertical vibration or oscillationof the lever ll, which communicates its motion through the link l2 tothe rock-arm 9, and from thence to the beam Il. In this manner the beamis vibrated or oscillated, and the plunger 3l of the pump through themedium of the connecting-rod 32 is reciprocated and water forcedandlifted and discharged from the pump. The rod 32, as will be obvious, maybe mechanically connected with anyother mechanism or device to beoperated.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a motor of theclass described, the combination, with the frame-Work, the Walkingbeamfulcrumed therein and provided With opposite counterbalancing-weights,and a connecting-rod extending from the beam and adapted to beconnectedwith devices to be operated, of a train of spring-actuatedspeedincreasing gearing terminating in a crankdisk, a wrist-pinextending from the crankdisk, a lever fulcrumed at its upper end betweenthe beam and crank-disk, an arm eX- tending from the fulcrum of the beamand moving with the latter, a link pivotally connecting the outer end ofthe arm with the lever, and a link connecting the outer end of the leverwith the aforesaid crank-disk, substantially as specified.

2. In amotor of the class described, the combination, with the suitableframe-work comprising the uprights 3, 14, and l5, the shaft l, mountedin the uprights 3, the walking-beam fulcrumed at its center upon theshaft, the arm 9, the connecting-rod 32, loosely connected at its upperend to the walking-beam at one side of its fulcrum, the sleeves 6,mounted on the beam at opposite sides of the fulcrum and terminating inhooks 7, the Weights loosely hung upon the sleeves, the set-screws 35,passing through the sleeves and bearing on the beam, the winding-shaft16, terminating at one end in a crank-key, journaled in the uprightsILL, the gear 17 on the shaft, the coiled spring 18, secured to andwound upon the shaft and having its outer end connected to the uprights14, the upper and lower shafts 2O and 2l, the gear 23, mounted on theshaft 2l, the small gear 25, mounted on the shaft 2l and engaged by thegear 17, the crank-disk 22, having slot 26 mounted on the shaft 20, andthe small gear 24, mounted on the shaft 20 at one side of the gear 22and engaged and driven by the large gear 23, of the lever 1l, locatedbetween the disk 22 and the inner end of the beam 4L and having itsinner end pivoted, as at l0, to the standards 3, the link 12, looselyconnected, as at I3, to the lever 1l and to the free end of the arm 9,and the link 28, looselyconnected to the outer end of the lever Il andto the wrist-pin 27, loosely and adj ust-ably mounted in the slot 26 ofthe disk, substantially as specified.

3. In a motor of the class described, the eembination,with theshaft land its bearings, of the Walking-beam fulerumed at its center thereon, arock-arm mounted on the fulcrum and adapted to move with the beam, aconnectingrod connected with the outer end of the beam and adapted to-beconnected With the device to be operated, a train of speed-increasinggears terminating in a crank-disk, a spring for actuating the same, thelever pivoted at its inner end, a link between 'the lever and rock-arm,and a link between the crank-disk and the outer end of the lever,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my oWn I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- SWAN PETERSON.

Witnesses:

J. H. SIGGERS, WV. S. DUvALL.

